Mindfulness mediation training
Law@work, UCT Faculty of Law, is pleased to present an eight-week mindfulness based living course. It emphasises experiential learning, which is the recommended way to learn to develop mindfulness practices in order to incorporate them into daily life. Eight two-hour sessions every Wednesday from 18:00 to 20:00. Limited to 30 delegates.
About the course:
Neuroscience has uncovered how mindfulness meditation transforms behaviour, structure and function of the brain after an eight-week program. Mindfulness practice is associated with changes of specific brain areas essential for attention, learning and regulation of emotion. Benefits include: increased calm, decreased stress, and increased attention.
Mindfulness is training in the science of mind. How the mind works, how to focus and pay attention, and how to deal with inner-conflicts of stress and difficult emotions. To regulate the brain and nervous system - to calm down and pay attention.
Who will benefit from the course?
Anyone wanting to cultivate stability, clarity and focus, and reduce the inner stresses of working life.
One major cause of distraction and mental stress is due to the mind's habitual tendency to ruminate about the past and worry about the future. Mindfulness training is a way of bringing awareness to the moment by moment experience of living, realising that, in each moment, we have a choice as to what we think and how we act (moving from a re-active mind state to a more thoughtful responsive state).
Mindfulness can help reduce stress, prevent burnout, build mental resilience and sustain a sense of well-being. Recommended as the foremost treatment for stress and depression!
Course outline:
Participants will be taught progressive skills in mindfulness through presentations, guided practices and enquiry sessions.
Week 1 - Introduction to mindfulness and neuroscience
Week 2 - The body as a place to stay present
Week 3 - Introducing mindfulness support
Week 4 - Working with distraction
Week 5 - Exploring the undercurrent of thoughts
Week 6 - Working with the observer and cultivating an attitude of self acceptance
Week 7 - Our brains' emotional regulatory systems and compassion training
Week 8 - A mindfulness-based life
Course presenter:
Jenny Canau, BA (Wits) LLB (Wits) LLM (RAU), is a former attorney and law lecturer specialised in the area of human rights law. A director of Mindfulness Africa, an association of mindfulness practitioners founded and developed by international meditation teacher Rob Nairn. Pioneering mindfulness training with educators and teachers - and for aspirant judges and magistrates with the South African Judicial Education Institute.
Registration details:
Programme and venue information:
Signing in: from 17.30 on the first Wednesday of the course. Thereafter, sessions start at 18.00 to approximately 20.00.
Award of certificate:
A certificate of attendance from UCT will be issued to those who attend all eight sessions. Please sign the attendance register every day.
Closing date for registration: one week prior to the course.
Registration and enquiries:
Please contact Law@work, UCT Faculty of Law:
Ursula Lottering on 021 650 2041
Andrea Blaauw on 021 650 5413
Fax: 021 650 5513
Email: az.ca.tcu@gnirettol.alusru/az.ca.tcu@wuaalb.aerdna/az.ca.tcu@llafressaw.aneri
Or visit our website to download the registration form: www.lawatwork.uct.ac.za.
Time: 18:00 - 20:00
Venue: Cape Town
Cost: R5,000 per delegate. The fee includes parking and course materials.
More info:
Instructions regarding the programme and directions to the venue will be sent to you electronically a week prior to the start of the course.
Date: 03 August 2016 to 21 September 2016
Time: 18:00 - 20:00
Venue: Cape Town
Cost: R5,000 per delegate. The fee includes parking and course materials.
More info:
Instructions regarding the programme and directions to the venue will be sent to you electronically a week prior to the start of the course.